As the dust settles from the Presidential election, trend watchers in all areas of the economy are assessing current conditions and looking to what lies ahead. For the still-struggling housing markets, this means turning attention to factors that may contribute to...
Four years after the start of the housing meltdown that sent millions of homeowners into crisis, the flood of foreclosed homes hitting the market has –temporarily at least – slowed to a trickle. A ready source of relatively low-cost income properties, foreclosures...
“Inflation investing” or income property investing, as Jason Hartman refers to it, can be a tricky concept to understand. To budding income property investors seeking to create financial independence and accustomed to thinking of the idea that debt is bad, it’s...
Tulip mania was a period in the 17th century during which Dutch contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for...
Although the flood of foreclosed homes hitting housing markets around the country has slowed since the mortgage crisis of a few years ago, many foreclosures are still being held by banks, real estate groups and federal lenders such as Fannie Mae. Now, as these groups...
